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For all its jet-setting appeal, however, one thing a world timer can't account for is politics.
Invented in 1935 by Louis Cottier, an independent watchmaker in Geneva, the mechanism at the heart of the world timer was first put to use by Patek Philippe in 1937 in Ref. 515, a rectangular pink gold model in the Art Deco style, featuring 28 place names, including Prague, Moscow and Fiji, engraved on a rotating exterior bezel.
White Desert's Race the Jet package costs $24,000£19,00000) and timing for the expedition will be made by a specially engineered version of Bremont's ALT1-WT 'World Timer' watch that has been designed to withstand particularly harsh conditions and is only made available to people who have stood at the South Pole.
A world timer is a wristwatch that can simultaneously display the time in the 24 time zones established by the 1884 International Meridian Conference in Washington, which fixed the prime meridian at Greenwich, England, forming the basis for Greenwich Mean Time, or G.M.T. Now that Caracas no longer occupies G.M.T. -4, the prestige brands that make world timers have opted for a range of substitutes.
And I have a watch called a "World Timer".
And of course, thanks to the world timer function, it's also perfect for travel.
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